Since it was a weekend, Sunday didn’t produce much for us until late in the evening. The nephrologist kept leaning towards SCV syndrome. The SVC is the vein that drains blood from the upper extremities into the heart. From the looks of Amanda, it did seem that could be it. However, with decreased output and…

Friday night, I left the ER late; there was no sign of us getting a room on the transplant floor anytime soon, either. The drive was all too familiar, and I was on autopilot heading back. No telling how many times I made the run back late once we were in step-down after Amanda’s heart…

I had a post to catch y’all up, then things turned a little South. So, you’ll just get it all in one now. If you just want to go straight to the admission and what got us there, hop to the last few paragraphs. If not, read on. I am back with Amanda in Tennessee.…

Amanda is doing good and continuing to improve. I’m still back in Texas, but have a flight booked for Friday to head back up. I wasn’t able to work as much as I’d hoped, but I can’t gripe since I haven’t had a full day off since I’ve been back! I’m currently in Alpine, waiting…

Wednesday, the day after discharge, was an easy day for us; we both slept in. Amanda got up earlier than I did because she needed to take some meds. I found her passed back out in her recliner when I got up. Tank was still snoozing pretty well when I got up. He ended up…

As usual, the baby surgeons were the first in the room today. Wednesday is really coming around; she even made a quip about Amanda being tired of seeing her. Though her voice sounded as if a smile accompanied it, one did not! They seemed happy with things, and the NP said there was a small…

I haven’t been that hardcore this round as I have been in the past. I’m not checking Amanda’s MyChart for labs first thing in the morning or even standing in our pre-rounds in the hall. I don’t know as much on the kidney side of things as I do on hearts. We aren’t on a…

Sundays must be a sleep-in day for the doctors! It seemed to be like that on the heart floor. Also, for those who dressed in suits and ties or pantsuits, weekends were usually casual! It was 8 am by the time they started rounding. The baby surgeons did come by a little earlier, but they…

Same as the last few days: the baby surgeons, unsupervised by a mother hen, come by first. I don’t think there is a pecking order when mama hen isn’t there, but that doesn’t stop the surgeon mentality of each trying to take the lead. They noticed a bleeder from Amanda’s incision and said they’d come…

Friday morning, the first team to round was surgery. This was pre-rounds and not the full team, just the baby doctors without parental guidance. They were there early, too, around 6 am. I’d already been up reading for a while, so I decided that was my cue to get up and dressed. Amanda seems to…